Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Research

  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Selects Six Sites for Unmanned Aircraft Research

    After a rigorous 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site operators across the country. In selecting the six test site operators, the FAA considered geography, climate, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experience and…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    If you’ve followed the last few Premium Posts, then you know that I’ve been working through the “Knowing Your Numbers” series of posts, describing how to use Metrics in your professional land surveying business. To date, I’ve written Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    In earlier Premium Posts, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use to run your land surveying business, and Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success.…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    Updates & Upgrades In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup, I want to explain a few site upgrades in addition to this week’s summary. If you are a regular visitor here, you’ve no doubt noticed a new look. You also might have found some of the site features updated, too. What’s happening, simply is…

  • ClearEdge3D Wins Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant for Automated Feature Extraction Research

    ClearEdge3D Wins Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant for Automated Feature Extraction Research

    Funding will greatly improve the company’s feature extraction technology; goal is to virtually eliminate manual modeling of facilities, buildings and entire cities Herndon, Virginia — September 21, 2011 — ClearEdge3D today announced that it has won a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop its technology in the rapidly evolving field of…

  • Esri Opens Software Research and Development Center in China

    Redlands, California—Esri has established a research and development (R&D) center in Beijing, China. The center will provide geographic information system (GIS) software development to support China’s many growing industries. Using ArcGIS, Esri’s Chinese software engineers will be developing core technologies for web- and cloud-based mapping systems, advanced spatial information visualization, and mobile mapping solutions.

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Land Surveying Field Metrics for Success

    A while back, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success, or failure, which is something we all need to understand. In this Premium Membership post I expand on that theme; specifically how to use land surveying…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success

    Know your numbers to measure your success. We all need to know our numbers, but do you know what numbers are important for your success? The metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure our success, or failure, is something we all need to understand. This is true in any professional land surveyor business, whether you are…

  • 5 Research Tips for the Professional Land Surveyor

    The many steps in performing a professional land survey each come together to complete a survey with many opportunities to achieve success, or suffer failure. Research, field reconnaissance, field surveying, office computations, boundary analysis and plan preparation each rely upon the successful completion of the other. Sometimes there are obvious major missteps made during one…